Top Secret: Hellions

Top Secret: Hellions

Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs
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The Hellions have been tremendously active in Paragon lately. Although the lowest members run the typical rackets – extortion, robbery, carjacking – the lieutenants and bosses are much more concerned with cornering a niche market: the sales and distribution of black magic artifacts. Part of this is believed to fuel their own abilities, for the Fallen and the Damned have tapped into the power of arcane hellfire.

The current leaders of the gang have been identified as Decimator, Destroyer, and Destructor. They still take their orders from Tempter, aka Nick Pocker, the gang’s founder who is currently serving time in the Zig. In fact, so many Hellions have ended up in the Zigursky Penitentiary recently that they regard the prison as a new, fertile territory for their criminal enterprises.

Before Tempter was locked up, he was brokering a relationship with the Outcasts, recruiting them into the black market trade in mystical artifacts. They share rivals in the Trolls and the Skulls, although they are clearly not close allies. What is interesting is that the Hellions don’t hoard the arcane objects for themselves – it is almost as if they somehow benefit from spreading them into the general population, sowing evil and misery.

Tempter has also sent a handful of top ranking men to the Rogue Isles to establish a foothold amongst the villains beneath Arachnos’s shadow. Whether 3K Kelvin and Duke Mordrogar are still in direct communication with him, or whether they are now operating essentially on their own, is currently unknown.

UPDATE: Hellion arsonists have been spotted for months now, randomly starting fires in Steel Canyon and Skyway City. This seems to be done to raise the gangs profile; to issue challenges to other gangs, like the Trolls; and possibly as an initiation rite for their leaders. This trend has become more commonplace since the incarceration of the gang’s leader, Tempter.